If you read or watch Peter Schiff on youtube, he recommends investing abroad.  It seems many large safe ADRs have moved from the NYSE to the Pink Sheets.  The reason is to avoid as they say paying the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley.  There are literally 100s of ADRs there. Many pay over 5% dividend.  

 http://www.pinksheets.com/pink/companysearch/index.jsp search ADRs and pink sheets.

One thing that bothers me about Schiff is that he claims home prices will drop.  To build a house requires commodities thus, evenutally home prices should be rising to.  I heard many home builders already claim home prices are below replacement costs.  The population is growing 3 million a year in the USA, and some of those people are going to want to live in a new home.

Furthermore, presently the dollar might be overvalued.  I heard comedy by Chris Rock that if you go overseas the dollar won't buy anything.  To me that means  the dollar is presently undervalued to other currencies.  The reason why investors sold off dollars correctly in the early part of the decade.  However, they went a little too far.  The dollar will continue to erode in the U.S. however, the dollars needs to rise to catch up to the foreign currencies.  Thus if you buy a pair of shoes in Great Britain will cost the same as a pair of shoes in the USA after conversion.